Job Center for CPRS
From lifeguard stands to district offices, California's parks and recreation careers move through one Job Center.
The California Park & Recreation Society is the professional home of the people who run the state's parks, pools, trails, and community programs. Aero designed and built the CPRS Job Center, the standalone board where public agencies post openings and professionals find them, and supports the team that keeps it running.
Two audiences, one board, too much manual work
CPRS already had a working job board, but working isn't the same as easy. Job seekers had no clean way to narrow dozens of listings down to their own field. Employers, mostly cities and park districts, needed clear posting terms and predictable activation dates before committing budget. And every ad that arrived put approval, payment, and scheduling on staff plates. CPRS wanted a Job Center that felt like a professional service in its own right, not a page bolted onto the main site.
Find a job, place a job.
The Job Center runs on Drupal as its own subdomain, connected back to the society's main site and member accounts, and CPRS staff manage the full ad lifecycle with Aero supporting the machinery underneath. In practice, the platform carries the daily work:
Filter by field
Job seekers narrow listings by classification, from aquatics and park operations to therapeutic recreation, with salary, location, and closing date visible on every ad.
Post an opening
Employers submit ads through a structured form with published rates for 30- or 60-day runs, so agencies know the terms before they start.
Activate on schedule
Submitted ads go live on a stated timeline once payment clears, which lets hiring teams plan their announcements around real dates.
Pay through one account
Payment runs through the poster's CPRS account before an ad activates, so nothing publishes unpaid.
Manage every ad
Staff review, schedule, and retire listings from a dedicated ad-management area built into the site.
Open doors early
Internship listings sit alongside the board, giving students and early-career professionals their own way into the field.
A career hub with room ahead.
The Job Center was deliberately built as its own platform, and that choice is what gives it a future. New job classifications, new posting workflows, heavier hiring seasons: each can be added on the board's own rails without disturbing the society's main site. CPRS gets a career hub that behaves like a product, with a roadmap of its own, and Aero stays close enough to build the next piece when the profession asks for it.
